All Posts Tagged With: "legal extortion"
Bullies
“We cannot use force.” That was my response when a lawyer shouted at me, “You media types are bullies, too!” We were arguing about my April 4 Wall Street Journal op-ed that called class-action and securities lawyers bullies and parasites who enrich themselves through extortion. It’s legal extortion, but extortion nonetheless. These aggressive lawyers and [...]
1Jun2008 | John Stossel | 0 comments | ContinuedHow California’s Consumer Laws Legalize Extortion
Barry Zanck, owner of a small mortgage company in Newport Beach, California, says he had never had a complaint lodged against his business. So he was shocked when he was named, along with a dozen other mortgage-related companies, in lawsuits filed last year by a prominent southern California law firm. “The unlawful, unfair and fraudulent [...]
1May2003 | Steven Greenhut | 2 comments | ContinuedOut of Order by Max Boot
Basic Books • 1998 • 252 pages • $25.00 Max Boot is a journalist and editor at the Wall Street Journal who has made a name for himself (and a lot of enemies) with his articles exposing the despicable practices of plaintiffs’ lawyers who will do almost anything to squeeze money out of “deep pocket” [...]
1Mar1999 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued-
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